Bjorn Borud wrote: > [Martin Gregorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > | > | As for documentation, lets look at vi. Not a great editor, but every > | *nix variation has it installed and any fool can learn to use it in > | about 2 hours flat and it does at least have good pattern matching. > > there's also the "info" system in Emacs, which not only covers Emacs > itself, but usually also a lot of documentation available for Emacs > extensions and other programs. again, this predates a lot of things > that people are used to today, so just because it seems (and sometimes > is) a bit more fiddly, it must necessarily be inferior. > I thought it might be in "info", like most GNUish things but I couldn't check because I don't have it installed.
> for instance, Linux has come a long way in addressing the needs of > desktop users, yet some people refuse to use Linux because it doesn't > behave *exactly* like Windows (as if that was a worthwhile goal) and > they are too lazy or don't think they can manage, to learn a new > system. > Yep, and the same people think a command line is to be avoided at all costs. "I mean, its so /last century/ and you can't do anything useful with it anyway". Obligatory OT comment: right now I have two xterm sessions open with which I've been writing a Swing/JDBC app using nowt but a bash shell, cvs, microEmacs and (of course) J2SE. I don't need no steenking IDE. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
